![]() In my last month on the job, I spent $205 at Starbucks. Separate from the damage all this coffee was wreaking on my body, to this day, I still feel guilty about the Starbucks tab I hit my company with monthly. My Ford Fusion needed 91 octane gasoline to keep it going and I needed Starbucks americanos to keep it on the road. Covering this kind of ground meant a lot of late nights and early mornings. When I moved from my engineering position into a sales role in Texas, I often drove 1,500 miles a week going to accounts. ![]() I used to have a serious coffee addiction. So while I’m no “coffee addict,” my withdrawal symptoms (mainly the horrible caffeine withdrawal headache) indicated otherwise. We drank coffee because we enjoyed the morning ritual and the taste.Īpparently, even this leisurely cup or two a day was enough to make us dependent on caffeine. With a flexible work-from-home schedule, I woke up whenever I wanted and napped anytime I wanted. Plus, it’s not like we needed the caffeine. So, look! We were below average! Could we still be dependent? cups a day, equivalent to 300 mg of caffeine. The average coffee drinker consumes three 9 oz. So, neither of us are considered coffee addicts.Ĭoffee is the second most popular beverage after water in the United States. On a typical day, we only drank 1-2 cups of coffee. But really, I’m not, and I know from experience.īefore quitting, I was a daily coffee drinker for 13 years, while Alex had been drinking coffee daily for three years. At least this is what I was telling myself while hiking through Colombia’s pristine páramo trying to forget about my headache.
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